英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈdɹæɡəl/

動詞

draggle (third-person singular simple present draggles, present participle draggling, simple past and past participle draggled)

1. To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.
   • 1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, “The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk”, in The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems:

     […] with draggled nets down-hanging to the tide […]

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Chapter 22”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets.

   • 1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “拖 (thoa)”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 593:

     [If] it be too long it draggles on the ground and gets under foot and is very troublesome.

派生語

アナグラム

• gargled, raggled